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Plot Summary:
A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Asphalt Goddess (2020)
Plot Summary:
Max returns to her slum turned into the vocalist of a rock band. There, the memories await, the latest news and the truths that were silent for years: Sonia is a voice that speaks from the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Sort of Homecoming (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Sort of Homecoming tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer who thought she left her high school experiences long in the past. She unexpectedly returns to Louisiana at the request of her high school debate coach. Their strained reunion brings back memories of her tumultuous senior year of high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Life Inside Out (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, independent film
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The Nights Belong to Monsters (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sol, a 17-year-old teenager, moves with her mother to the Gonzalo's home, the actual mother's boyfriend. In this town, where from the beginning Sol only finds hostility, she must face bullying from her schoolmates and Gonzalo's harassment. While wandering the streets trying to find a way out, Sol meet a mysterious and magical female dog with whom she establish a symbiotic relationship. It be this dog, the one that violently and surprisingly, always appear to defend Sol until the last consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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To Each His Own (2017)
Plot Summary:
Takashi Aoyama has way too much work to do and pushes himself mentally too hard. He blacks out and collapses at a railroad station. When he is about to be hit by a train, he is saved by Yamamoto. After his encounter with Yamamoto, Takashi recovers his bright personality and gets better results at work. One day, Takashi sees Yamamoto boarding a bus to the cemetery with a serious expression.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, twisted, queer cinema
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Sea Change (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hala (2019)
Plot Summary:
Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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The Witch of the West Is Dead (2008)
Plot Summary:
A 13-year-old girl named Mai refuses to go to school due to her asthma. Her parents send her to to stay with her British grandmother in the countryside. Thinking her grandmother is a witch, Mai asks for witch lessons. Her grandmother plays along, but instead ends up teaching Mai lessons which help her become more responsible and enjoy the simple aspects of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Fisherman's Diary (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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Selah and the Spades (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, black cinema
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Ms. White Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lex Cordova is a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when it comes to dealing with everyone else. When Valerie, a sharp-tongued free spirit who simply has no time for her own mortality, refuses to play by Lex's rules, Lex is forced to question her own decisions, and must decide if the business of dying is truly worth it... even at the cost of living her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Life and Death in the Warehouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Mothers of Chico Xavier (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, mystical
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32A (2007)
Plot Summary:
This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She has an obsession with breasts and bras and can't help but stare at other girls and women, even the head nun doesn't escape her gaze. Otherwise, her world revolves around her three friends, Ruth, Claire and Orla, who are more experienced in the ways of the world. They wear bras already (except Claire the feminist) and they've all had boyfriends. The new bra is a start but they really hope Maeve can find a fella, even offering kissing lessons to prepare her. What no one expects, least of all Maeve, is that she should snare the local sixteen-year old heartthrob. Maeve is so smitten with him that she lets her friends down when they need her the most.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Rose in Winter (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Closed Note (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano, a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Mio on the Shore (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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14-year-old Mother (2006)
Plot Summary:
Miki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Satoshi Kirino who is 15-years-old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Miki is young and Satoshi is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Miki suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Initially upset, Miki's parents promise they will support her. Miki tells Satoshi of the pregnancy and he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Seto and Utsumi (2016)
Plot Summary:
Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking about a serious problem, the two endlessly engage in meaningless idle talk as if it were meaningful.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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100% Coco (2017)
Plot Summary:
13 year old Coco loves fashion and has her own unique style. She dreams of becoming a famous fashion icon. But on her first day of school she is made fun of and everyone calls her 'Coco the Clown'. Devastated, she decides to leave her vintage dresses, panther boots and striped socks at home and to dress herself more unnoticeable. Her anonymously kept fashion vlog as Style Tiger is a huge hit however. Is there still a chance that she will become a style icon? And does Bruno, that quirky boy she knows from school and secretly likes, finally notice her? Slowly Coco learns that she just has to be 100% herself!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Guidance (2015)
Plot Summary:
The truth behind a series of scandalous photos of Miriam, the most popular girl in school, unfolds through weekly sessions with the school’s guidance counselor, Anna.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 6 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Mystery of Her (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Girl's Speech (2015)
Plot Summary:
Haruna Tsubame, an inconspicuous high school girl, is always sensitive to people’s moods and keeps the peace in school. One day, she gets pushed to become the president of the student council by the people around her. Tsubame's encounter with a man who is a genius speechwriter, leads to a revolution in school. She struggles to change a school full of irrationality and dissatisfaction with the power of words.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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West Coast (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the teasing and contempt of their fellow classmates. So when Fle-O, the leader of this merry gang, learns that he has to leave his town and his friends at the end of the year, his whole world falls apart leaving him vulnerable when the most popular kid in school decides to make fun of them in front of everyone. Humiliated, our protagonists decide to take their revenge through one last expedition together that will lead them further than they would have imagined. Through incongruous situations and successive meetings, they will grow and learn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Here Are the Young Men (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Street's Virgin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Virgen de la Calle is a 2013 Spanish-language telenovela that was produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network UniMás and Venezuela-based television network RCTV. It is a remake of Juana la virgen, a Venezuelan telenovela produced for RCTV. María Gabriela de Farías and Juan Pablo Llano will star as the protagonists.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Venezuela
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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My Father's Violin (2022)
Plot Summary:
Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Normal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Komi Can't Communicate (2021)
Plot Summary:
It's Shouko Komi's first day at the prestigious Itan Private High School, and she has already risen to the status of the school's Madonna. With long black hair and a tall, graceful appearance, she captures the attention of anyone who comes across her. There's just one problem though—despite her popularity, Shouko is terrible at communicating with others.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious